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Originally Posted by MMM
You are telling me that Asian women have told you that they are getting plastic surgery in order to look like Western women?
It's one thing to say a model or actress is beautiful, but to say "I am getting eye surgery done to look white" is quite another.
I think there is a lot of questionable "facts" from that "article". But read what you quoted "A character from a story" said this. And look at the time frame. This is from over 100 years ago, when blond hair and Western features WERE new and exotic to Japanese eyes.
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I have lived in Japan and don't ever remember seeing a blond woman on a shampoo commercial. A brief search on YouTube shows only Japanese women and western actors with black hair. It would be silly to market a product for Japanese hair using a blond actress. No one would buy it because the perception would be that it is made for hair different than their own.
For some reason people want to think that just because the West has a large PRESENCE in Asia, that means that it has a large INFLUENCE in Asia. This is the leap of faith I think that goes no where. If a woman makes her eyes larger, she must want to look white. If a guy eats a hamburger he must want to move to Texas. If a man wears a necktie, he must wish he was British.
This implies some kind of cultural superiority that simply isn't there.
I know several Japanese people who tell me they prefer American movies to Japanese movies. Is it because they find Japanese actors difficult to look at compared to American ones? Are they fantasizing about leaving the trap of their Japanese life and move to the open plains of the US?
Of course not.
"American movies tend to have larger budgets, better effects, and are easier to follow." And these points are all true.
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first of im not saying these women told me (at what point did i say that at all) and how many times do i have to stress that ive formed this perception from the docs were shown in the west where (IN THESE DOC'S) not sitting opposite me in a starbucks sipping coffee - these women have made such statements!
so challenge the validity of the journalists or whatever portraying such a notion to the west and not my inference from such - because usually u watch doc's because they inform u about things u dont know about, whether or not they are accurate is a whole diff thing
same goes for the article - if u have issues abt whats mentioned within it then i suggest u go and dispute this with the writer and not the reader of the article
lastly no one is implying any cultural superiority anywhere - generally when u see a women on tv making a statement like im doing this because i want to look more western - u believe her statement - granted not all asians are getting plastic surgery to look western but there are SOME who are - and thats something that cant be denied esp when they go flat out admitting it on tv